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AFD 2010: BREAKING NEWS!!

[Due to my busy freelance schedule, I didn’t get to do a fake redesign for this year’s April Fool’s ISB, but I think I made up for it at ComicsAlliance with four BREAKING NEWS!! posts. The biggest one, of course, started out as this week’s installment of Great Comics That Never Happened, which Rusty laid the groundwork for by saying he couldn’t make the deadline on Twitter. It’s called living the gimmick, son!]

Normally I promote my ComicsAlliance articles as they go up, but apparently today was the day that every major publisher decided to kick off the new month by making huge announcements, and I’ve been swamped. So much has been going down–like the announcement of Mark Millar’s adaptation of Finnegans Wake–that the rest of the staff’s been shorthanded covering the big news, and I was pulled from my usual position as a feature writer and given the job of an actual comics journalist today.

ITEM!: DC announces the upcoming follow-up to Brightest Day–an article made even more exciting when a source who wished to remain anonymous to protect his career (Dean Trippe) leaked the next follow-up too!

It was a tough one, and journalistic reporting is something that’s way out of my element, but I’ve got to say, it’s exactly this sort of crunch time that makes me proud to be part of an organization with integrity and a commitment to honesty like CA.

The idea of a world where there never existed a superteam of vampire killers featuring Rocky Balboa, Shaft, Bandit, and the Six Million Dollar Man fills me with horror rather than the happy joy normally associated with April 1st.
Even Chris wouldn’t fill us with such hope only to cruelly steal it away. He’s not the devil.

Heh, I thought the April Fool’s joke on Comics Alliance was the Orson Scott Card/Dragon’s Age article, where Laura lambasted and boycotted Card as a homophobe, and then the commentors solicited violence against him for his beliefs. Ironic humor is the best humor… after 80’s humor.

Brad C: Last year, Think Geek had for April’s Fools a Tauntun Sleeping Bag (from Empire Strikes Back) , with the inside looking like the intestines and everything….it was such a popular idea, it got made for real.

I’m certain that a few years back, some comics blogger shared the idea of an ’80s LoEG with Baracas, MacGyver, Jessica Fletcher, and Michael Knight, as they teamed up to fight an evil ‘older’ version of Vicki the robot from “Small Wonder.” There was even a picture of this team-up.

And frankly, I could swear that I saw this on the ISB, but for the life of me, I can’t find it anywhere now.